Guy at [H] just purchased 2x512 MB GTX

John

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The sad thing is the performance gain will be marginal at best, and definitely not $800 worth of performance over a pair of 256MB GTX's. :p
 

Hacp

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Maybe he wants to play fear at max settings on his super duper CRT?
 

Greenman

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$1500 is a lot of cash to benchmark games.

Edit: It just occured to me that I paid less than that for a 52" HDTV.
 

Born2bwire

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Ahh, Naperville, explains a lot. Still, I'd like to see what he can do with them in SLI...
 

Born2bwire

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Originally posted by: 5150Joker
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Ahh, Naperville, explains a lot. Still, I'd like to see what he can do with them in SLI...


Are people from there rich?
Not UBERrich, but it's definitely gotten a lot wealthier in the past 5-10 years. A lot of tech was built up (Lucent, Tellabs HQ, Molex HQ, BP Amoco, HP,...), most of the land has been built up too. I guess it bears more in my mind because I grew up there and it really has changed from what it was when I was a kid. I don't think less of them or anything, just makes me feel a little weird when I go back and visit.
 

hans030390

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almost 10k for a stock 7800gtx 512mb. That's not too bad...but the price is.
I wonder when he'll get SLI results up.
 

jiffylube1024

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Good for him. $1500 for video cards. He will get lots of performance out of that money, and if he keeps them for more than a year, his investment will depreciate a ton ;) .
 

5150Joker

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Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Good for him. $1500 for video cards. He will get lots of performance out of that money, and if he keeps them for more than a year, his investment will depreciate a ton ;) .

Something tells me he won't keep them that long.
 

jiffylube1024

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Considering the fact that the 512MB 7800GTX's are rumoured to be rare, these will probably be great cards to buy and then sell 3-6 months later for close to what you paid for them. As long as ATI doesn't launch R580 before you sell the cards, they should be able to net quite a bit of their cost back.
 

5150Joker

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Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Considering the fact that the 512MB 7800GTX's are rumoured to be rare, these will probably be great cards to buy and then sell 3-6 months later for close to what you paid for them. As long as ATI doesn't launch R580 before you sell the cards, they should be able to net quite a bit of their cost back.


LOL I don't think anyone is worried about ATi launching cards anymore. Their launches these days constitute a trickling amount of cards available for $100 over MSRP.
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: 5150Joker
Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Considering the fact that the 512MB 7800GTX's are rumoured to be rare, these will probably be great cards to buy and then sell 3-6 months later for close to what you paid for them. As long as ATI doesn't launch R580 before you sell the cards, they should be able to net quite a bit of their cost back.


LOL I don't think anyone is worried about ATi launching cards anymore. Their launches these days constitute a trickling amount of cards available for $100 over MSRP.


I don't know dude- I heard one was sighted in Boise yesterday?

;)

Yep, they don't seem to be flooding the market with XTs do they?
 

Cookie Monster

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123 fps... DooM3 ultra settings 4xSS AA, 16xAF 16x12... plus Gamma AA
:Q

F.E.A.R MP DEMo 16x12, 4xAA 16xAF Softshadows, 58 fps. Mininum of 38!?!?

:shocked:

And these are just beta drivers...
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: JBT
Wow $1400 for video cards thats nuts...


Depends. Aren't you in med school IIRC JBT?

$1400 for video cards will be change to you soon! ;)

BTW- when it is, feel free to buy me some video cards remembering all the jolly laughs you got from my wacky posts! ;):beer:
 

crazydingo

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Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
123 fps... DooM3 ultra settings 4xSS AA, 16xAF 16x12... plus Gamma AA
:Q

F.E.A.R MP DEMo 16x12, 4xAA 16xAF Softshadows, 58 fps. Mininum of 38!?!?

:shocked:

And these are just beta drivers...
Isnt it already noted that AA & softshadows isnt possible in FEAR ?